Friday, November 18, 2022

MEDUSA

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by Akua Lezli Hope AI-assisted images by the poet. First lady Michelle Obama considered wearing her hair in braids while living in the White...
Thursday, November 17, 2022

MISGUIDED: A SOUTHEASTERN OHIO TRAGEDY

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by Renee Williams   On October 29th, while on a gravel bike ride in Vinton County, Ohio, three unleashed, uncontained pit bulls attacked Eva...
Wednesday, November 16, 2022

THE WATERMELONS OF KHERSON

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by Diane Kendig When President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the newly liberated city of Kherson he joked that he was there because he "wa...
Tuesday, November 15, 2022

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

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by Michelle DeRose A woman who asked not to be identified out of privacy concerns told The Daily Beast that after she and Walker conceived ...
Monday, November 14, 2022

DAVE CHAPPELLE

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by Judy Juanita Dave Chappelle returned for his third stint as host of “Saturday Night Live,” which gave the controversial comedian a starri...
Sunday, November 13, 2022

LULLABY

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by William Aarnes “Lullaby,” lithograph by Henry Moore (1973) via Henry Moore Foundation collection . for Hale    Sleep, child; we hope     ...
Saturday, November 12, 2022

AFTER WATCHING FRONTLINE'S "PUTIN'S ATTACK ON UKRAINE: DOCUMENTING WAR CRIMES"

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by Nan Ottenritter   Ukrainians walk through Bucha, unearth, document, store, and ship bodies, I cry, wonder why, and   how such happens. Le...
Friday, November 11, 2022

CRYSTAL BALL

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by Laura Rodley In the knuckle of the nightmare what does he see? He swivels the joint around, sees faces of children, no longer innocent, t...
Thursday, November 10, 2022

WALKING LEAVES OF SPRING

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by Dick Altman Donald Trump and Herschel Walker. Photograph by Tom Brenner / Reuters / Alamy via The New Yorker The World’s Democracies Ask:...
Wednesday, November 09, 2022

EARLY VOTING

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by Martha Deed When the six year-olds in Miss Rumsey's first grade class elected Truman one girl was practically the only one voting for...
Tuesday, November 08, 2022

ELECTION NIGHT 2022

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by David Radavich “Waiting for a Pear to Fall” by Jonas Daniliauskas The sky is clear and not a word floats in the heavens or on the eart...

ELECTION DAY

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by Howie Good We shout for help, but the music from a passing car is so loud our shouts are drowned out. I punch in the emergency number sto...
Monday, November 07, 2022

IF I HAD A HAMMER

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by Akua Lezli Hope AI image… assisted by Akua Lezli Hope all over this land oh over this Land all over this land/ we are dissolute and unwis...
Sunday, November 06, 2022

THE HEART OF IT ALL

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by Bradley McIlwain Whitman— I hear the chains Across N. America At Capitol Hill Where we’ve all become  Capital— Loose change In the pocket...